Who Owns Knowledge? BioBattles and TechnoStrife in Latin America

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Until recently, Latin American science has been dismissed as the underdeveloped and dependent poor cousin of science in the developed

Among the forms of knowledge—sciences—developed in the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans were sophisticated agricultural systems. The Incas,